Peter McCarthy

Where to begin? Ok, everybody reading this… that means YOU! Yes You! Sit back and smile about God’s awesome grace. If you never take time to experience the place that God has you… then you’re missing out. Today was gonna be a hectic day… aaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnd-uhhhh. It lived up to its standards. But let me say this. When you’re in a place of desperation, the Heavens open up, and the miraculous happens.
I worked all day on my first ever college theology paper today. I was very excited, very dedicated, and very self confident that I was God’s gift to the rest of the class. My paper came together nicely, a good mix of college level writing, testimony, theology… and humor. I was SET MAN!!! Until half hour before my class when my computer hickupped and erased my theology paper. Tears started to flow… what more can I say, there goes my day. I just have to say it though, He turns sorrow into dancing.
This wasn’t to unexpected, considering that the Lord has been taking care of my flesh the last few days. I mean, He spanked the pride right out of me… for the first time in my life… I was at a loss for words. i didn’t know what to do. What can you do? I thought that the Lord would be proud of my theology paper. I did not accidentally  do anything wrong, it was a genuine windows vista experience.
So I went to class with tears in my eyes, and a heavy heart. I explained to my professor what had happened. He said ok. I still felt bad. By the way, I forgot to mention that I have this great friend named David Choi who always knows the answer. Its weird like that. He was a huge comfort to me. So anyways class is going on, and basically I can’t stop thinking about the fact, that I had almost lost it a few times today, and then this happens. “I’M TIRED OF THIS EMOTIONAL ROLLER-COASTER!!!” -Bee Movie, gotta see it. Anyways. Through class, the Lord was just assuring me, that He is in control. I have never a such a sense of understanding God’s greatness in such a practical/tangible way. By this time, laughter started to pour forth in our class… which I’m never opposed to. It was great. So wacky!!! Ha. When I got home, I stayed in my car and just worshipped my maker, cause what else are you supposed to do when you realize that He is him, and that you are you? I mean like serioously. So after be unorthodox in my car (Caroline-uh) I get this knock on my door. It was Joshua. GOOD LORD… what now. “uhhhhh… I need your help. I’m locked out of everything, and everything is locked in my car. My keys, my phone… my ipod. ( ahh, kids these days, and what’s important to them). Can you help me?” I said, yeah one minute, the Lord’s showing me something ( which I’m not gonna share right now, maybe later on). So I go in the garage, and he has a hanger, cause everyone knows that if yourlocked out of a car… FIND A HANGER!!! So, we had keys to the house. He goes in, and I’m trying to get his car unlocked. I finally get the bright idea to bend the hanger together-ish, and stick it in the lock. After about 4 minutes of ill-advised fiddling, I see the lock pop up. Yay! 40 minutes in a garage dealing with a car. What a way to end the day. After that, I ate some mac and cheese… cause thats what super heroes eat. Then I wrote my paper again… it’s so different. I don’t like it. But it will be more structurely sound… hopefully. Now, I’m blogging here.

Moral of My life: The presence of God is always right there, it’s times like these that the still small voice speaks to us and says “Be still and know that I am God”.

-Pete